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  • There are youngsters like us all around digging this music. Something many people don't know or see often. At any rate and age, this is a beautiful song. And yea, Music like this just isn't made anymore.

  • @alayduhh - that's not true. listen to bon iver. mumford and sons. the fleet foxes. I'm tired of all this bashing of our generation, we are doing just fine. CSN wasn't in the central mainstream when they were around either. That's always how these things go, and every era has had its good and bad.

  • @mudshadowmoon -

    I'm 64 years old, have sung in men's glee club, opera workshop, and episcopal choir (for money), played cornet and French Horn, and have yet to find a better way to have fun and let it all out than sing along with CSN. It warms an Old Farts Heart to know that someone 14 years old appreciates CSN. OK, so how about Pink Floyd? Yes? Tell me more!

  • Why can't people sing like this anymore these harmonies are so tight and amazing. I'm only 14 and I appreciate this music. I can't believe my friends don't know these guys. They call themselves singers. This song gives me such a feeling...

  • @mudshadowmoon Comments like yours, at age 14, finally give me some hope for the future of music. It's really refreshing to hear that there are some in the younger generation who appreciate what good music is all about, rather than mindless rapping and/or screaming the same 5 words repeatedly over an electronic dance beat.

  • Man.. Its been 2 months.. I miss my girlfriend

  • happy birthday ( 70th ) Graham Nash !! many many more sir !

  • Good Stuff!!! Thanks for posting! :)

  • i taught myself to play this till my fingers bled & callused....how could you say no one likes this anymore??? Quires of teens even sing this....and it my fantacy wedding song with my husband of 15 years & going strong!

  • As my father used to say.. if I could sing like that I would spit in my bosses eye ...

  • OH BEAUTIFUL HARMONY!!

  • @irishace- your kidding right? they dont sing like this not even close

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  • 7 people don't know great music when they hear it!

  • I found out about this band from an old Roseanne episode lol.

  • csny or gtfo

  • Why can't we hear music like this today. So beautiful, such incredible harmony, could listen to CSN forever.

  • totally agree that this is a truely beautiful song..a masterpiece, however, there is also a lot of truly great music out there...problem is..you have to search for it, The good stuff isn't on the owned radio stations..but its there. Music and art will always have a voice.

  • My momma just learnt how to play this on guitar and sing the melody, while I sing the third harmony(: brilliant song!

  • Stand by the stairway you'll see something certain to tell you,

    Confusion has it's cost.

    

  • This song is so simple but so brilliant

  • I wonder if that's Jerry Garcia playing pedal steel....anyone know?

    

  • Absolute perfection. That's all.

  • great song but my dad and his brothers do it better though

  • I like this mix - it sounds a bit more like the Hollies.

  • I wish there was more real music. Music from the heart..

  • I love this song, but why are they three together?

  • @mlmj1994 This came out like a year before Young joined and thats when they did the acoustic version which I prefer but both are awesome

  • @mlmj1994 I think it means that someone else has entered the relationship as before they are 2 alone so maybe on the rocks, then they are for each other so perhaps he realizes that he's lost her & that she's happy with this other man & won't return to him

  • @kiwimendor Thanks :)

  • even tho im 13, i still love this song!!!

  • @greysonishott even tho im 14, i love this song too! :*

  • The most amazing lyrics of any song I've heard.

  • I like it because it almost sounds like a Stills Buffalo Springfield track. I like the version of the first album too of course.

    

  • Burning candles in my room, listening to CSN and soemtimes Y and singing at the top of my lungs. <3

  • The best harmonies in Rock (history), period.

    gus : )

  • @longlostgus Hmm probably trio, I think Simon and Garfunkle did the best duo harmony though. I really like Crosby and Nash concert in the early 70s

  • @goodolarchie

    Ok nice choice, and is always hard saying "the best ever" ok among the top three and mostly folk Rock history thats more close to it, love Simon and Garfunkel also cool and yes Crosby and Nash were great as a duo too, never saw the as such but with CSN lots of times, once Stills was mad with C&N and he was on tour with Flo and Eddie lol, remember them? nothing against them but not nearly C& N. thank you

  • @longlostgus I saw Crosby and Nash as a duo back in 1993 (?), opening up for Jackson Browne. As a duo, they were very good, but it's always better with Stephen Stills helping out. It just gives them extra depth as a trio.  But it's hard to argue about how great Simon and Garfunkel were at harmonizing!

  • @centuryrox

    Opening? ok, but they've always been the main card (I believe U : ) and of course many times better with the great Stills amazing musician - my first concert ever- Stills & Manassas great.

    Totally agreed there, CSN is best.

    Reg. Simon and Garfunkel (with all due respect) they don't get close to CSN harmonies wise, besides they'r only two and I still think Crosby & Nash's (plus Stills and then sometimes Young : ) are among the best Rock and/or folk rock vocals in Rock (Hist. : )

  • @longlostgus Yes, believe it or not they were the opening act. I guess without Stills, promoters must've thought they wouldn't draw as much as Jackson Browne. Personally, I think either act would've done just fine as headliners.

    I certainly wasn't saying Simon & Garfunkel were better than CSN (+/- Stills), I was just noting how good S&G were at harmonizing. But CSN (+/-) will always be my favorite!

  • @centuryrox

    Thank you : ) Yes you'r right reg C & N not drawing much attention without Stills but I remember they did at one point, or maybe was Crosby's rebounding period from a liver transplant and some jail time, remember? But luckily he made it through, and i get your point reg S&G, they were good but split too soon and to be honest I wasn't a fan (but I do like their songs) and yes of course CSN rules thats were this nice three or four part conversation started, thanks and looking forward

  • My father died today. I was compelled to listen to CSN&Y. We both loved them. I too share memories very much like twinklebear 22 & others. I was lucky enough to take him to see CSN in 2005. It was wonderful. I am glad that we can find solace in their music. Some of my fondest memories are listening to music with him. In rememberace of Philip Dean Allen Jr. Oct 3, 1949-May 8,2011. I love you Daddy...

  • I really like it but the acoustic version is much better...

  • no entiendo a las 3 personas que no le gustan esta cancion

  • Mr. Greenwood, these lyrics are nothing short of brilliant. So sorry you didn't get credit for them earlier. : ( That said, perhaps you can take a modicum of satisfaction in the fact that your beautiful lyrics have touched so many lives. Such a great song. It brings so much pleasure to so many. : )

  • Why doesn't anyone sing like this anymore?

  • @onesweetworld33 they do /its just that they are not publicized like rap music and teenybop music so that is what our children hear. Unfortunately the music industry is greedy and has gone way down hill....most of what you hear today on radio etc has no talent............the talent is hidden

  • @onesweetworld33 ....hm!!!!...Very good question...our new generation loves and are sure that "true" music is, chaos...I've a 24 yr. old son, who only "jams" lot's of nothing seems to relieve them of stress...I dopn't know why?...Frankly....evolution, devilotion...?" but my son do not drink or smoke, no drugs I wonder why, by now he hasen't learn and sang a song at leat for me~;-) ps: gr8 question buddy...!!!!?

  • @onesweetworld33

    They don't know how.

  • @onesweetworld33 try the fleet foxes or the morning benders and get back to me.

  • @onesweetworld33 Also try "Revolver - Losing You"

  • @onesweetworld33 good stuff ;)

  • Their harmonies are as tight as ever, but I'm so used to the acoustic version I've known for 40 years, this sounds just a little off.

  • their voices blend so well together

  • Great song ...

  • Graham Nash has such a greeat voice.

  • just such a lovely song:)

  • This song was inspired by a groupie, Christine Ann Frka, known as Miss Christine. It was originally written by Gary Greenwood, Stephen Stills & Joey Richardson. Christine died of overdose in 1972.

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  • @xSakuSanx Thanks for giving me some credit for this song, it was a long time coming! Actually Steven never wrote a note or a word of this song. He bought it to record and put his name on it!

  • Wow man, im 42 years old, CS&N was the first real concert I ever saw in Charlotte NC.in the mid/late 80's. In these years I have to say I have never heard this version ! LOL....always a decade late...one way or the other ;) Love it, these guys are Icons, Standards others are and will be held up against for hundreds of years to come like it or not....peaceful easy feeling music for the soul man.

  • The Truth Party... we are losing our freedoms !!!!! obtw... great recording.. love peace to all

  • Great song; wonderful harmony and lyrics.

    Hippies suck, though.

  • @99ECCLES So end your self.

  • @99ECCLES I may be an old hippie but belive me I don't suck! I co-wrote this song!

  • Ahh God this takes me back to a time in life that was soo free.. Now a days it is totally different, wow, how people have changed.

  • This is going to be our wedding song along with Led Zeppelin Thank you!!

  • @tarabean81 Thanks that means a lot to me!

  • Know every work for now and always, this song always got to me big time I got to party with Steven Stills in Carbondale IL at SIU in 1972 after his show out the country at this cool house, and I was like..what can ya say, hey I dig your music and run away..he was so down to earth..passin ME a dube

  • Know every work for now and always, this song always got to me big time

  • That's a bit of music history you NEVER knew about! Not everything is as it seems!

  • That's a bit of music history you NEVER knew about!

  • This song was written about Miss Christine Frika of the GTO's! Joey (Gold Hill) Richards (ex-roommate of Steven Stills) Miss Christine and I (Gary Greenwood) were roommates in a house on Highland Blvd & Fountain Ave. in Hollywood. Joey was in love with Miss Christine but she was not in love with Joey. I helped Joey write this song about her. Steven wanted to record it. He and Joey worked out a deal for the song unbeknown to me. So the credits are listed only as Steven Stills & Gold Hill.

  • @ggreenwood4 I love that song ,I been listening that song for 33 years now and up to now...I loved it man..

    

  • @ggreenwood4 Actually I believe every word...Way things were in those days...So were you able to get any money out of this??? You helped Joey write this right???  So did Stills pay you out??? Or what???

  • If it wasn't for the Monkees and Stephen Stills music I do not believe I would have withstood the rigours of a chidren's home for seven years They kept me sane enough to endure it all

  • I could listen to it all day, thank you. More please. My Father in Law is/was a hippie. He loves this music and loves that I love it. I am from Pittsburgh and Italian also. What you should do is put a few lines of what you remember daily, would help you to remember and it would give us all an interesting storyline to follow. I imagine interracial couples were rare then, or at least in the public eye. I don't know why, but I am interested.

  • @Steelerbradd~the stories of those times will vary from person to person. my boyfriend was Italian,making us an interracial couple,both with hair past our shoulders. the police,blacks and whites harassed us. but that's just Philly for you. The people with vision learned and applied communal living and growing their own food on purchased land. i found a place to be but it always had a temporary feel to it.

  • @steelerbrad~i will be 60 years next month and my memories of those days are beginning to blur. i was in Philly PA. It was dangerous to be a "hippie". Drugs flowed like candy corn on Halloween,Free Love was a reality and the police were out to get us. The music was fantastic.

  • One of their more underrated songs to me, I just love the melody. Does anyone know who can harmonize better than CSN?

  • @steelerbradd Joey Richards and I!

  • I might be interested in getting this 1991 box set. Their latest greatest hits release has a diffferent version of this particular song and this one is better. It also doesn't even include "Woodstock!"

  • I'm 15. I love CS&N. Them, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel are a few of my faves. I wish more people my age liked this kinda stuff.

  • I'm a 20 y/o hippie again....sigh

  • what a beautiful song

  • My body is tingling all over I think I'm having a seizure. Aah.

  • just like justin Beiber....

    just kidding one of my favorite songs its just beautiful

  • oh baby!

    no words!

  • what does this song mean?

  • This is strange. I remember there was a completely acoustic studio version. Does anyone know where to get it?

  • @LelouchLamperouge019 This video is the re-recorded version for their 1991 box set release.  The original version, which is acoustic, is on their self-titled first album, released in 1969.

  • @centuryrox 42 years ago already huh? Frightening....We'll be sounding like our parents did when...well when they sounded like parents if you know what I mean..nice channel you have here

  • @LelouchLamperouge019 I have that album its from Deja Vu. Its when Neil Young joined

  • @LelouchLamperouge019 it's on "So Far". Neil Young was in the band as well.

  • CSN was my first concert. I was 9 years old. My dad took me. I wish I could re-visit that now, because I would appreciate it that much more.

  • This was one of my Dad favorite group. My dad passed away 4 weeks ago and everytime I hear this I am remind of him......may he rest in peace....love you dad

  • hi im 12 and what is this?

  • @suudsuz you are a sad strange little man

  • @suudsuz your a sad strange little man

  • @suudsuz hahahahahahahaa

  • @suudsuz This is Crosby, Stills, and Nash "Helplessly Hoping." You could've figured that out if you'd looked at the title. If you're twelve, I think you should probably educate yourself. Look up "I am the Walrus" "Hey Jude" "Stairway to Heaven" "The Rain Song" "Sympathy for the Devil" "Brown Sugar" "Crazy Train" and "Bark at the Moon." You'll be thankful to learn your basic 60's-70's Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal.

  • @forglegorktheork u frogot justin beeber nd lady gagaga

  • @suudsuz You'd BETTER be kidding, kid.

  • @forglegorktheork LOL no y???

  • @suudsuz Wait, you're seriously saying that M.C. fucking whitebread is cool?

  • @forglegorktheork heck ya lol ^_^ <3

  • Kid, B****r deserves to have gasoline injected into its lungs, its legs dipped into sulfuric acid up to the knees and have fire ants placed under its eyelids. It' a horrible abomination and there is nothing - absolutely NOTHING - good about ANYTHING that it does. It is a horrible disgrace to anything you could call music and should be left to get hooked on cocaine and die under a bridge somewhere. It's just a huge useless pile of redundant protoplasm. Listen to some REAL music, why don't you?

  • @forglegorktheork Im sorry, is it not completely obvious that im impersonating a mainstream shitfaced "music" fan? I <3 trolling butthurt kids like you anyhow, but this kind of music is what I listen to all the time, can't stand new shit.

  • @suudsuz Thanks, dickwad. I love being trolled.

  • @forglegorktheork no prob bro <3

  • @suudsuz newfag detected

  • @bobbybenjamin waht?

  • best song of all time! :)

  • @noodlemuffin7 Thanks!

  • im 13 and me and my friend played this at a talent show we didnt get through unfortunately the judges seemed to favour dont stop believing which really made me angry that no one likes talent any more oh well i do

  • @theweeleyproductions well, dont stop believing is a great song also, Journey is a fantastic band, but that's really cool that you dig CSNY too.

  • Nice

    I like it

    All the best

    Kean

    

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  • I like this version almost as much as the original, just awesome.

    Thanks for uploading you know big time.

    gus

  • @longlostgus Thank you from my heart that you shared this wonderful performance of this song with me. Very loving. KEEP ROCKIN`

    \m/~~~

  • they are amazing especially stephen still

  • @pepengut *stills

  • I do so love this song! I grew up on CSN!! My dad's favorite band and he would play it loud on our backporch speakers as I played outside taking in these awesome lyrics! So many great songs from this band!! This takes me back to a lifetime past filled with happiness and innocense!! How i miss those days and those times. They may be gone but never forgotten. I will always hold those special memories of my dad and this music in my heart forever!! Missing the best days!! RIP Pop <3

  • @twinklebear22

    Well, beside the wonderful music, your description proves the aphorism of a French (or German???) philosopher, who said:

    CHILDHOOD'S A PARADISE WE CANNOT BE EXPELLED FROM.

    Sorry for my amateurish translation.

    Hope & wish you to carry this basic confidence in your mind - all of your life !

  • I was at the concert in Lucca,Italy... they were great!! they played Blackbird, Norwegian Wood, Ruby Tuesday and Behind Blue Eyes.. I was excited!

  • This song played my heart strings, as a young girl, and as it does now

  • takes me back to a happy, sublime time of my life. this song still moves my soul, and i'm 58 y.o.

  • mitici

  • So can anyone confirm if its "Trips" on the pedal steel? I heard it was but I cant find anything. My favorite version of the song because of the pedal steel and their voices are softer... more passion in this version.

  • fro three people to come together and be so ensique is amazing

  • A beautiful song from the great Crosby, Stills and Nash. We are one person, they are two alone, they are three together, they are for each other. What a great message! Just love em. And they are great in concert! Saw them 3 times. My mother went to on with us, she loved them, too. And when they were done, she loved all the people holding up their lighters! Can't do that anymore! And we stashed everything in her purse, knowing they wouldn't look in some old lady's purse!

  • You can really pick out Nashie here.... such a good ear he has!!!!!

  • the best lyrically put togethor song ever

  • 17, and "Wooden Ships" and "Long Time Gone" are two of the best songs I've ever heard.

  • im 16, and my firsy CSN concert is May 31st, and i cannot be more exited

  • @brenzaboom So glad to see young people getting into the great talent that is CSN! Their music truly lives on, even after 40+ years!

    Word of warning though: The strength of CSN comes through in their harmonies and music, not through some flashy stage show. I say this because many of today's "artists" cover up their lack of talent by using gimmicky stage shows. CSN doesn't, and doesn't need to do this. Just sit back and enjoy the music, as I'm sure you will.

  • @centuryrox well said century, well said :)

  • @centuryrox

    that's not true at all! some might hide behind their fancy pyrotechnics, but for a lot of metal and rock bands, they do it to give all their fans an overwhelming experience.

    sure thing, that it's nice to go to a concert to listen to the music, but you also need something to look at, fireworks pyrotechnics and colors.

    And yeah, if it's quiet and calming songs like Helplessly Hoping there is no need for anything else than the tones of the music and sounds of the lyrics.

    Regards Morten

  • @centuryrox wow so...it was underly amazing...Stephen is still amazing at guitar, David is still an Amazing singer, and Graham bring so much charisma to the stage....it was amazing....they played Behind Blue Eyes for a surprise and it was the best version i've heard of it

  • @centuryrox CSNY was one of my first concerts too.  First was Tom Petty, 2nd was CSNY, I think I was 16, so 9 years ago.

  • @brenzaboom I'm 16 too, and very jealous! :P

  • @brenzaboom

    i'm 13, and i saw csn in july.

    BEAUTIFUL

  • @keo774 we dont give a fuck that you're 13 really

  • @brenzaboom fucking a, what does it matter what age you are? all i read is "im only xx and i love x, everyone my age likes shit but im just xx and i know what true good music is, god damnit if i read another comment saying how young i am, yet i know what good music is im going to kill myself

  • @420crazydiamonds Daaamn, dont hold back on killing yourself now, we could use less douche bags like you in the world. Why does this seem to hurt you so much?

  • I'm 24 and I'm happy to say I've seen these guys and Neil Young twice.

  • You're lucky!

    Here in Brazil this is almost impossible!

  • @DMR612 You're lucky, here in Brazil this is almost impossible!

    But I still have high hopes!

  • this song is so amazing, when my family sings it its amazing, so beautiful, there is nothing else to say.

  • what happened to video of this with them doing it live with just stills playing the acoustic guitar??

    Every time it was posted they took it down.

    That version would bring tears to your eyes it was so pure and sweet.

  • @Stringwinder

    I KNOW! I had it in my playlist and it's no longer available. This will replace it. I HATE when YouTube eats videos. :(

  • That version is back ( by someone French), but of couse it is that original version, with subtitles.

  • That's beautiful man!

  • Thanks so much for sharing !

    Beautiful Harmonies.

  • I was 18 years old, just outta HS. Had to leave home and live in a funky apartment totally inhabited by hippies. We had a ball. My boyfriend came over with this album and we played it forever. Youth and good music can get you through some rough times! The album and my youth are long gone but so cool to have technology help to bring it all back home!

  • @tahuti51 wish I was there, I'm only 32, but love CSN

  • Well, we had our moments with the boys in blue but the good times stand out the most! I would like to perform this song(vocals/guitar). It is so pretty~ Happy New Year,love~

  • @tahuti51 I enjoyed reading your comment. Why don't you tell us all more of what you experienced during those days, I am very curious. I was born right about when this came out, 1972